Pontefract 3.10 tips – improving Clotilde can strike for in-form yard

William Knight has sent out just eight winners on turf in 2016 but four of those have come in the last fortnight, including Saturday’s Sandown scorer Secret Art at 16/1, and that increases interest in his CLOTILDE, his sole runner at Pontefract in the Listed Pipalong Stakes (due off 2.40pm).

The winner of her first two starts of 2016 on the all-weather, she has maintained her improvement on turf and, having brought up the hat-trick at Windsor, she returned to that track to finish a fine third in a Listed contest against male horses last time, despite meeting significant interference. On that evidence she can definitely win at this level and this looks a good opportunity against her own sex and with this stiff mile in her favour. Her stable is 2-9 (27%) at the track since 2012.